Woodbury, Peter B.
Senior Research Associate
My current research activities are as follows.
Design and manage research projects: write grant proposals, create and oversee project budgets, manage sub-contracts. Work with a multi-disciplinary multi-institutional team to assess the sustainability of biofuel production in the Northeastern and North-Central US. Work with a multi-disciplinary team to assess potential mitigation options for greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors. Work with a multi-disciplinary team to model effects of tillage and residue management on soil carbon in the rice-wheat cropping system of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Work with a multi-disciplinary team to model nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loading to surface waters in the Upper Susquehanna watershed. Evaluate probabilistic methodologies for assessing risks from fire and invasive species to wildland ecosystems throughout the Western US. Write peer-reviewed publications. Present results at international meetings.
research
research and scholarship focus
(1) Understand the effects of environmental stresses such as ozone, acidic deposition, excess nitrogen, and global change on ecosystems. (2) Develop and use spatially explicit models to integrate monitoring and experimental data to understand and quantify ecosystem processes at landscape, regional, and national scales. (3) Develop and use different kinds of models (spatial, process, statistical, probabilistic) to assess risks to ecosystems and to improve agricultural and environmental management and policy.
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submitted impact statement
- Computer modeling of environmental sustainability | 2007 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS) | Cornell department
service
event participant
background
featured in
- Developing biofuels in a sustainable way is essential for U.S. economy, note researchers at Cornell symposium | Cornell Chronicle Feature
- Experts to highlight bioenergy innovations at Sun Grant conference | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: acidic deposition, agricultural sustainability, carbon cycle analysis, carbon sequestration, ecological risk assessment, environmental modeling, excess nitrogen, geospatial modeling, nitrogen cycle analysis, process, regional, statistical, water quality